Impatiens plant named &#39;imdohopi&#39;

ABSTRACT

A new  Impatiens  plant, characterised particularly as to novelty by a strong and spreading growing habit, freely branching, resulting in a big and floriferous plant with large, double, bright pink flowers, flowing above the foliage.

LATIN NAME OF THE GENUS AND SPECIES OF THE PLANT CLAIMED

Impatiens walleriana

VARIETAL DENOMINATION

‘Imdohopi’

BACKGROUND OF THE NEW PLANT

The present invention comprises a new distinct cultivar of Impatiens, botanically known as Impatiens walleriana.

The new Impatiens is a product of a planned breeding program conducted in Enkhuizen, Netherlands. The new Impatiens cultivar has a strong, upright growing type, floriferous with large, double flowers and with attractive foliage.

The present cultivar originated from a pollination made in 2002, of a proprietary Impatiens selection identified as ‘T2680-4,’ not patented, as the female, or seed parent, with a proprietary Impatiens selection identified as ‘T2679-1,’ not patented, as the male, or pollen parent.

The present cultivar has been repeatedly asexually reproduced by cuttings in Enkhuizen, Netherlands, in Angers, France, in Gilroy, U.S.A. over a two year period. The distinctive characters of this new Impatiens are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction. It takes 6 to 8 weeks to produce a finished plant, depending on the temperature.

This new Impatiens plant is an annual in most climatical zones in the U.S., only in zones 9 and 10 it is a perennial plant.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

This new Impatiens plant is illustrated by the accompanying photographic drawing which shows blooms, buds and foliage of the plant in full color, the color showing being as true as can be reasonably obtained by conventional photographic procedures.

DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW CULTIVAR

The following detailed descriptions set forth the distinctive characteristics of this new Impatiens. The data which defines these characteristics were collected from asexual reproductions carried out in Enkhuizen, Netherlands. The plant history was taken on 25 week old plants, blossomed under natural light in the field.

Color readings were taken in the office under ambient light. Color references are primarily to the R.H.S. Color Chart of The Royal Horticultural Society of London.

Plants of the new Impatiens differ primarily from the plants of the female parent selection in the following characteristics:

Plants of the new Impatiens have bright pink flowers with only petals, whereas the plants of the female have carmine rose flowers with pollen cap and stigma.

Plants of the new Impatiens differ primarily from the male plant selection in the following characteristics:

Plants of the new Impatiens have bright pink flowers with only petals, whereas the plants of the male have rose flowers with pollen cap and stigma. TABLE 1 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NEW CULTIVAR ‘IMDOHOPI’ AND A SIMILAR CULTIVAR ‘Burgundy Rose’ (U.S. Plant ‘Imdohopi’ Patent No. 9,605) Flower size Large Smaller Flower color Bright pink Burgundy rose Plant habit Well branched, Branched, upright spreading PARENTAGE Female parent: ‘T2680-4,’ not patented Male parent: ‘T2679-1,’ not patented PROPAGATION Type cutting: Terminal cuttings Time to initiate roots: 10-12 days at 20 degrees C. Time to produce a rooted cutting: 4 weeks Root description: Fine, fibrous and white in color PLANT DESCRIPTION General appearance: Compact, mounded and outwardly spreading. Appropriate for 12 cm pots and larger containers Growth and branching habit: Strong growing variety with spreading plant habit and large flowers Crop time: 6-8 weeks, starting from an unrooted cutting in a 10.5 cm pot Plant height: 16.5 cm Plant diameter or spread: 49 cm LATERAL BRANCHES Length: About 18.5 cm Diameter: About 7 mm Internode length: About 2 cm Texture: Smooth Color: 147C Anthocyanin may be present: 187B FOLIAGE DESCRIPTION Arrangement: Simple, alternate Length: About 5 cm Width: About 2.5 cm Shape: Ovate Apex: Acuminate Base: Attenuate Margin: Serrate, rounded Texture: Glabrous, smooth Venation pattern: Pinnate, arcuate Color, developing and fully 147A expanded foliage, upper surface: Color, developing and fully 137C expanded foliage, lower surface: Venation Upper surface: 147D Lower surface: 138B Petiole, length: About 0.8 cm Petiole, diameter: About 2.5 mm Color: 145D FLOWER DESCRIPTION Flower type and flowering habit: Numerous and consistently large fully double flowers. Freely and continuously flowering. Flower buds open similar to a rose in fullness; flowers rounded. Flowers arise from leaf axils. Typically about 22 flowers and flower buds per lateral branch. Flowers positioned above and beyond the foliage and typically face mostly outward. Flowers last about five to seven days under greenhouse conditions. Flowers not persistent. Flowers not fragrant. Flowering season: Year round under greenhouse conditions. In the garden, flowering is continuous from Spring until Fall. Flower size Diameter: About 6 cm Depth: About 2.1 cm FLOWER BUDS Length, at stage for showing About 1.3 cm color: Diameter, at stage for showing About 10 mm color: Shape: Ovoid Color: 62B PETALS Quantity/arrangement: About 37 per flower; imbricate Length, outer petals: About 2.1 cm Width, outer petals: About 2 cm Shape: Oval to obovate Apex: Emarginate to retuse Base: Shortly attenuate Margin: Entire Texture, upper and lower surfaces: Velvety, smooth Color When opening, upper surface: N66B When opening, lower surface: 75C, with N66C margin Fully opened, upper surface: 67C Fully opened, lower surface: 75C, with N66D margin SPURS Length: About 2.5 cm Color: 152D SEPALS Quantity/arrangement: Five in a single whorl Calyx length: About 3 mm Calyx diameter: About 2 mm Shape: Elliptic Apex: Acute Margin: Entire Texture, upper and lower surfaces: Smooth Color Upper surface: 141C Lower surface: 141C PEDUNCLES Length: About 2.5 cm Diameter: About 1.5 mm Angle: About 45 degrees to the lateral branch Strength: Moderately strong Color: 152A REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS None observed SEED/FRUIT DEVELOPMENT Seed and fruit development has not been observed 

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Impatiens plant named ‘Imdohopi,’ as substantially illustrated and described herein. 